WHO WANTS TO BE A TOP SHOWMAN!
So here are the answers...if you think I have made an error with any of them, just let me know!
Senior Doe Scorecard
A long lean neck would earn an animal points in what category ?
a) General Appearance
b) Dairy Character
c) Body Capacity
d) Mammary
The most points under mammary is received from?
a) teats
b) rear udder
c) udder support
d) fore udder
The most points in general appearance are earned from?
a) legs, pasterns, and feet
b) front end assembly
c) back,
d) stature
General Appearance has how many points associated with it?
a) 40
b) 35
c) 50
d) 10
A very roman nose and long ears in a Nubian would give her extra points
in what category?
A) front end assembly
B) breed character & head
C) Udder support
D) barrel
How many points do breed character and Head have?
a) 5
b) 8
c) 10
d) 50
Which of the following does not belong under Dairy Character?
a) withers
b) flank
c) head
d) neck
Body Capacity has how many points associated with it?
a) 10
b) 35
c) 40
d) 15
Uniform size and of medium length and diameter in proportion to capacity
is the beginning of the description for what sub category?
a) legs, pastern and feet
b) Teats
c) Thighs
d) barrel
Body Capacity is divided into how many sub categories?
a) 5
b) 2
c) 3
e) 6
Thin, loose and pliable with soft lustrous hair describes what sub category
a) mammary
b) back
c) skin
d) ribs
Which of the following is part of the Body Capacity category?
A) stature
b) Thighs
c) Chest
d) Rear udder
Which is NOT used to describe the mammary system?
a) No hair
b) balance
c) symmetry
d) quality
Prominent withers arched to point of shoulder with shoulder blade, point
of shoulder and point of elbows set tightly and smoothly against the chest wall
both while at rest and in motion describes what sub category?
a) chest
b) ribs
c) front end assembly
d) neck
Slightly tall at withers than at hips with long bone pattern throughtout
describes what sub category?
a) fore udder
b) stature
c) thighs
d) flank
Flat flinty, wide apart and long describes what sub category under dairy
character?
a) Ribs
b) thighs
c) flank
d) neck
Mammary system carries how many points?
a) 80
b) 20
c) 75
d) 35
Capacious, high, wide and arched into the escutcheon describes what sub
category?
a) barrel
b) back
c) rear udder
d) fore udder
Wide and full to the side and extending moderately forward describes what
sub category?
a) thigh
b) flank
c) fore udder
d) rear udder
Under body capacity the sub category with the most point is?
a) ribs
b) chest
c) barrel
d) back
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Showmanship scorecard
Appearance of the exhibitor will give you how many points if you are wearing
the proper clothes?
a) 50
b) 10
c) 25
d) 30
The preferred clothing color in the ring is?
a) White
b) blue
c) dark brown
d) green
" Pose and show an animal so it is between the exhibitor and the Judge
as much as possible" is part of what category?
a) Appearance of Animal
b) Appearance of exhibitor
c) Showing animal in the ring
d) Non of the above
Appearance of the Animal holds how many points?
a) 60
b) 20
c) 40
d) 80
Showing an animal in the Ring holds how many points?
a)) 90
b) 100
c) 50
d 10
Condition and Thriftiness is part of what category?
a) appearance of exhibitor
b) Appearance of Animal
c) Showing of Animal in the Ring
d) Appearance of your pens
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Breed Specific Questions
A black Toggenburg is:
a) not registerable
b) is not a purebred
c) is registerable with a b suffix
d) this can not happen within the breed
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In the Ring
You are last in a head to tail line and the judge asks you
to move to the front, you should
a) walk behind the judge and move to the front
b) walk behind the lineup of goats and move to the front
c) walk inbetween the judge and the lineup and move to
the front
d) wait for the lineup to move behind you
When the judge has you lead a pair of goats away and back side-by-side.
What is the proper procedure?
a). Walk away with your goat wether the other goat is keeping
pace or not.
b)Move in step with the other goat, being sure to stay
to the outside of
the pair regardless of where the Judge may move to.
c) Move in step with the other goat being sure to move between the goats if
the Judge should move up along your side of the pair.
d). Move in step with the other goat but don't be concerned if the goats
decide to swing heads at each other.
If the Judge has you circle and then stop in a side-by-side
line, which
part of the goat should you set up first?
a) The front end/legs.
b)The rear legs
c)Level the back first.
d)The end closest to the Judge.
Thank you for the contributions from:
Nat's little Bit Farm
American Oberhasli & Toggenburg Goats
Pat Hendrickson